novelapdf Chapter 62 Taking Action
Chapter 62 Taking Action
The many elders of the Sword Sect at the Qi Gathering Realm naturally understood the sect leader's meaning.
Some of the stronger disciples in a sect may abandon weaker disciples when necessary, prioritizing their own safety.
This kind of thing is common in other sects, but in the Sword Sect, it only happens in a few cases.
Now we've encountered this situation.
No elders objected.
Elder Chen immediately notified all his disciples.
The sect leader did not hide his words.
The other three leaders of the forces also heard it.
Xie Lingshan scoffed, "Heh, in the end, won't the Sword Sect still follow the same path as our sects and families? Nobody should criticize anyone else."
"A grand and dignified facade will always backfire," Yin Xuan retorted sarcastically.
Li Qingbai turned a deaf ear.
If they cared about enemies, there would be no need for the Sword Sect to continue existing.
at the same time.
Many disciples of the Sword Sect within the Water Mansion received a message from their sect.
Some of the lower-level disciples looked rather pale.
They are only alive now thanks to the protection of the main peak disciples.
If the powerful disciples of the main peak were to leave, they probably wouldn't be able to hold out for very long.
However, they would find it hard to accept that their senior brothers would die with them.
A disciple at the fourth level of the Nascent Soul stage said tremblingly, "Senior brothers and sisters, perhaps you..."
"Shut up! If we wanted to leave, we wouldn't have stayed until now," a senior disciple shouted, interrupting the disciple.
"Instead of thinking about these things, you should be thinking about how to live longer. The sect will definitely find a way to let us out," another senior sister said.
The disciples at lower levels were speechless for a moment, and then they kept this scene firmly in their hearts.
Lin Yuan also received the message.
Theoretically speaking, he could have just left.
"An incomplete strike is the same as no strike at all!"
"I wonder if the sect has a method for locating other disciples."
The biggest problem in rescuing people is finding them.
But he knew none of them.
He could only continue moving forward at will, searching for other disciples as well as for Lin Chao.
Not long after, in a certain palace.
"Some of you are about to give up, junior sister. You take the other junior brothers and sisters and go ahead. I will lure this water beast away and catch up with you soon," a young disciple who looked to be in his early twenties said to the woman beside him.
"No, Senior Brother isn't as fast as me. I'll lure the water beast away. You take Junior Brother and Junior Sister and leave." The woman responded immediately, then, without giving the male disciple a chance to react, said, "Be decisive, or none of you will escape."
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly attacked the water beast.
The male disciples were indeed much slower than the female disciples and couldn't catch up at all.
Of course, he didn't pursue it aggressively.
Since things are beyond repair, all we can do is to do our own thing well.
He turned to look at his junior brothers and sisters behind him, suppressing his emotions, and said, "Come on, I'll see you out."
"Senior brother, I've dragged you into this..."
"Stop wasting time. Every bit of your time will ruin the opportunity your junior sister is trying to gain."
After saying that, he urged his disciples to set off.
The weaker disciples dared not utter a word.
If the opportunity that my senior helped them seize is wasted, it would be even more unacceptable than not running away at all.
However, they hadn't gone far when they heard a strong rushing sound of water behind them.
"Another water beast is approaching?" The male disciple immediately became alert.
However, he soon discovered that the visitors were not water beasts, but two people.
One of them was the junior sister who had just lured away that terrifying water beast.
When the two stopped, the female disciple's eyes were still somewhat dazed.
"Junior sister, why are you back?" The male disciple's words brought the female disciple back to her senses.
The female disciple immediately said, "This senior brother saved me, saying he had something to tell me..."
She briefly recounted what had just happened.
The water beast she lured away was as powerful as a cultivator at the eighth level of the Nascent Soul stage.
Even when she and her senior brother joined forces, they couldn't defeat him; the only way they could deal with him was to lure him away.
The results of it?
On her way to lure the water beast away, she encountered her fellow disciples.
With a casual wave of her hand, the water beast was cleaved in two, the cut incredibly smooth, as if the terrifying defense that had rendered her and her senior brother helpless had never existed.
After learning about the situation, this fellow disciple led her to catch up, saying that he hoped the disciple who was leaving the Water Mansion could convey some messages to the sect.
Upon hearing this, the male disciple immediately relaxed and bowed to Lin Yuan, saying, "Thank you for your help, Senior Brother. What message do you need me to convey? I'll have them take it out."
He looked at the lower-level disciples beside him.
The matter was urgent, so Lin Yuan didn't waste time explaining. He simply said, "I hope someone can go out and have the sect elders send the locations of the disciples still trapped in the water to their identity tokens."
Since sects can transmit messages through identity tokens, this should be something they can do as well.
The reason this wasn't done before is most likely because the Sword Sect disciples in the Water Mansion are currently preoccupied with their own problems.
"Also, if you know of any other people trapped here, please tell me now."
The male disciple immediately guessed Lin Yuan's thoughts and said, "Senior Brother, you are truly righteous."
"What lofty ideals are there? It's just something many Sword Sect disciples do." Lin Yuan shook his head, unconcerned. "Just give me the information!"
The male disciple wasted no time and immediately told Lin Yuan the locations of the other Sword Sect disciples he knew.
"My junior sister and I have no energy left, please, senior brother."
Lin Yuan nodded, and then immediately set off in the direction the male disciple had indicated.
After he had walked away, the male disciple, on his way towards the exit of the Water Mansion, suddenly realized with a start, "I forgot to ask my senior brother's name. How am I supposed to find him now that I'm out of the Water Mansion?"
The female disciple was also a little embarrassed. She had forgotten to ask, so she said, "That senior brother is so powerful, it should be easy to find him after leaving the Water Mansion. There shouldn't be any major problems."
"That's true." The male disciple nodded in agreement.
However, at this moment, one of the disciples from Xinhuo Peak, who was being protected in the middle, spoke up: "I think I know this senior brother's name. His name is Lin Yuan, and he is one of the top five disciples of Xinhuo Peak."
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outside world.
As time went by, many high-level cultivators of the Fetal Breathing Realm from the Beast Taming Sect emerged from the Water Mansion.
They were all at least at the seventh level of the Fetal Breathing stage. Unless they were extremely unlucky and encountered a water beast comparable to the ninth level of the Fetal Breathing stage, they could still escape using the sect's secret techniques.
There are almost no disciples below the seventh level of the embryonic breathing stage.
Because the disciples of the Beast Taming Sect had not received any notification from the sect and were unaware of the water beast riot, they would continue to explore and seek opportunities as long as they did not encounter any water beasts.
Once you encounter a water beast, if you are below the seventh level of the Nascent Soul stage, unless you are extremely lucky and encounter a relatively weak one, you will most likely not be able to escape and will only perish in the water palace.
However, Xie Lingshan's eyes remained completely unmoved.
This was part of his plan.
It was just a few disciples who hadn't even reached the seventh level of the embryonic breathing stage who died.
The situation is different for the Sword Sect.
Disciples at the seventh level of the embryonic breathing stage almost never emerge.
The few that did appear were all injured and unable to fight.
Even disciples at the sixth level of the embryonic breathing stage are few and far between.
Most of them were at the fourth or fifth level of the Fetal Breathing stage, or even lower—disciples below the fourth level of the Fetal Breathing stage were mostly exploring the island.
The disciples who appeared survived the ordeal.
They came before the elders of the sect.
"Elder, quickly send people into the Water Palace to rescue them!"
"After saving us, my senior brother returned."
However, the elders of the sect could only sigh.
In fact, many disciples could understand.
Because they witnessed a fierce battle between their sect's senior brothers and sisters and other forces not far from the exit.
They already knew that this was an intention to provide assistance.
However, they were all blocked by other sects.
The exit from the Water Palace.
The female disciple who had been rescued by Lin Yuan looked at the five junior brothers and sisters in front of her and said, "You all go out immediately and pass on the message to the sect elders. Don't waste any time."
"That's right, it's very important," the male disciple also said.
Upon hearing this, the five disciples of lower cultivation levels immediately spoke up.
"Senior brothers and sisters, what about you?"
The male disciple laughed and said, "The junior brothers from Xinhuo Peak haven't left yet to rescue others, how could I leave? My junior sister and I were not injured. We are both at the seventh level of the Nascent Soul stage, so we can play a significant role and save many fellow disciples."
"That's right, we need to go back. Don't delay us, we still need to report the news. Hurry up and get out of here," the female disciple said.
Upon hearing this, the lower-level Sword Sect disciples dared not delay. They said "May my senior brother bless you" and immediately left the Water Mansion.
Xie Lingshan and Yin Xuan were disdainful to see that the Sword Sect had produced another disciple of a low cultivation level.
"Heh, letting these weaklings come out while keeping the powerful disciples who have received a lot of resources behind—is this the decision made by the Sword Sect's higher-ups? How foolish."
"Since you're willing to stay, then stay. That suits me perfectly."
They thought it was just right.
It is naturally more in their interest to kill disciples who have invested more resources in the Sword Sect than to kill disciples who have only used a small amount of resources.
the other side.
The newly emerged Sword Sect disciple immediately sought out the sect elders.
"Elder, a powerful senior brother from the Water Mansion plans to provide support to various places, but he cannot find the location of his fellow disciples. He hopes that the sect can send the location of his fellow disciples to the identity token."
Hearing this, the elder was somewhat puzzled.
In their memory, no reinforcements have broken through the blockade and arrived yet, and among the disciples who entered the Water Mansion earlier, there are not many who have the strength to provide support everywhere.
Or rather, in his view, there was only one.
"Is that Lin Chao?"
The disciple shook his head and said, "No, it's a senior brother named Lin Yuan."
He began his cultivation six months after Lin Yuan started, so Lin Yuan was indeed his senior brother.
Upon hearing the name Lin Yuan, the sect elder was taken aback.
He naturally knew about Lin Yuan.
Is Lin Yuan really that strong?
According to what the disciple said, the water beast that attacked them was at least comparable to the seventh or eighth level of the embryonic breathing stage.
As a result, he was killed by Lin Yuan?
Of course, the elders reacted quickly as well.
He found a way to break the deadlock.
"Go and rest first."
The elder then immediately went to find the sect leader.
"Sect Master, we've found a way to alleviate the situation. Lin Yuan of Xinhuo Peak is far stronger than we expected. Perhaps we can buy more time." The elder immediately relayed what his disciple had just told him to the Sect Master. "Sect Master, we didn't send our location before because we knew our disciples were too busy to help themselves. But things are different now."
"If Lin Yuan can kill more water beasts, he can free many disciples who were originally in the Water Palace. At that time, he will definitely be able to buy more time."
After hearing the elder's words, Sect Master Li Qingbai was slightly taken aback, then a smile appeared on his face: "Is that so? In that case, Changming, send the positions of the sect disciples within the Water Mansion to each disciple, but tell them to act according to their abilities."
Chen Changming was initially very anxious.
They were all stunned after hearing what the other elder had said.
However, he quickly realized what was happening and said, "Sect Master, I'll do it right away."
This is not difficult; it just requires some resources.
He didn't have much time before sending out the locations of the sect disciples.
After finishing these tasks, Chen Changming looked at the sect leader and said, "Sect leader, were you aware that Lin Yuan's strength was so formidable?"
Sect Master Li Qingbai shook his head frankly and said, "Although I know he has been hiding a lot of strength, I initially judged that he should be about the same as Wang Qiudao, or at most a little stronger than Wang Qiudao."
He truly hadn't expected Lin Yuan's strength to be so unexpected.
He was no weaker than Lin Chao in slaying water beasts at the seventh or eighth level of the Nascent Soul stage.
Did he reveal his true strength to save his fellow disciples?
Not bad.
Chen Changming then thought of something else and said, "Sect Master, Lin Yuan's strength is so formidable, could he also be a variable?"
"I don't know. He has only concealed his strength, not undergone a drastic change. But this kind of increase in strength is indeed beyond the realm of common sense," the sect leader replied.
He wouldn't pretend to know things he didn't, as that would only influence the judgment of others in the sect.
Upon hearing this, Chen Changming hesitated for a moment before saying, "Sect Master, if Lin Yuan is a variable, then what you said before about him being a potential successor..."
"I never said that variables cannot be sect leaders, Changming. It seems you were distracted back then!" Li Qingbai interrupted Chen Changming with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Chen Changming immediately recalled what the sect leader had said earlier.
Indeed, what the sect leader said at that time was a judgment on character, and he did not say anything else.
Before he could speak, the sect leader continued, "If it is truly a variable, then such behavior within the Water Palace would be even more appropriate."
Chen Changming had no rebuttal.
A sect leader cannot only possess the mindset that aligns with the Sword Sect's principles; strength is also indispensable.
Regardless of whether Lin Yuan is a variable or not, with such strength, he will definitely become even stronger in the future and have the ability to stabilize the overall situation.
The elder who came to report the news overheard the conversation between the sect leader and Chen Changming and knew that he had heard something extraordinary.
So the sect leader had already found a successor?
Moreover, she didn't hide it and told him directly, which is quite significant.
Of course, neither the sect leader nor Chen Changming discussed it in detail.
"Hopefully, Lin Yuan's intervention can quickly break this deadlock!"